Maternal Tobacco Use During Pregnancy and Child Neurocognitive Development.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Maternal tobacco use during pregnancy (MTDP) persists across the globe. Longitudinal assessment of the association of MTDP with neurocognitive development of offspring at late childhood is limited.

Objectives

To examine whether MTDP is associated with child neurocognitive development at ages 9 to 12 years.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study included children aged 9 and 10 years at wave 1 (October 2016 to October 2018) and aged 11 to 12 years at a 2-year follow-up (wave 2, August 2018 to January 2021) across 21 US sites in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. Data were analyzed from June 2022 to December 2023.

Exposure

MTDP.

Main outcomes and measures

Outcomes of interest were neurocognition, measured by the

SUBMITTER: Puga TB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10865146 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature